Why Size Matters For Your SSD Purchase

Vigile writes "Performance analysis on solid state drives is still coming into clarity as more manufacturers enter the fold and more of the drives find their way into users' hands. While Intel's dominance in the SSD market was once undoubted, newer garbage collection methods from Indilinx and Samsung are now balancing performance across the the major players. What hasn't been discussed in great detail yet is the effect that drive capacity can have on overall performance. Some smaller drives (64GB versus 128GB) will actually use fewer data channels from the controller chip and thus will have lower transfer speeds. The article compares drives using controllers from Indilinx, Samsung and Intel." Note that PCPer greedily spans this review over 12 pages. Next time maybe they can keep it down to something more reasonable.

Comments

Pussy hurt much?

[Chas]

Okay, running my monitor at 1600x1200 right now.

Each of the pages loads in and requires roughly a half-page scroll.

That's a decent chunk of data per-page.

Moreover, the pages load quickly.

Stuffing it all into 1-6 pages would do nothing more than insure that when they got slashdotted, they'd drown their server faster.

Re:Size.

[Locke2005]

I didn't know Bill G. posted to slashdot! How does Melinda feel about your 6.4 inches?